Deep Dive: We Caught Our Spouses Being Awesome
What Fresh Hell: Parenting, Relationships, and Making Life Better, with Two Funny MomsShow Notes
This Deep Dive series revisits some of our previous episodes about dynamics with our parenting partners.
We asked the listeners in our Facebook group about all the times they caught their spouses being awesome, and here are just a few: supporting their partners through difficult career choices. Reading up on issues that affect their kids. Learning how to do their kids' hair.
Awesome parenting partners, all!
Here are links to the resources mentioned in the episode:
"Flying the Coop" episode from Reply All podcast (Margaret's rec)
Our Fresh Take episode with Matthew Fray on Strengthening Our Relationships
The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children, by Ross Greene
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